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My interpretation is that they trying to make the point that it's not just the "War on Drugs" that is causing this massive spike in prison population but is instead being driven by…

"...but there's an absolute ban on importing ivory to the US." This is not true even for African Elephant ivory, at least not yet. [1] There is also legal ivory trade in Mammoth an…

If you go here: https://fiber.google.com/newcities/ and hover over the main cities it gives you a breakdown. Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, Raleigh It ha…

I don't think it does. It uses swfobject2 [1], a js project, to detect if flash is installed and give you a frowny face if it is. [1] https://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

After seeing this I went to see if AngularJS had anything built in to mitigate JSON hijacking and they do. It will strip ")]}',\n" off of json responses if included from the server…

I went into the article thinking it was going to be about some way of renaming functions or something. Probably just my limited internal definition of the word refactor. After read…

Hrmm that's embarrassing... well it's mentioned below the fold and everyone knows people don't pay attention to that stuff. :)

You should take a look at http://www.gradle.org/ if you haven't already. I worked on an ant project and decided we needed to convert to a better build system. I started down the pa…

I'm seeing the issue using Firefox 16.0.2 on OSX Lion.

Yes, my understanding is that this is inherent in the technology. AnandTech had a pretty good article about it a few months ago. I'm sure there are others as well. http://www.anand…

Apparently the big change is to use Visual Studio 2010 for the Windows builds. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-f...

In the past they have provided a full list of bugs fixed. My guess is that they will tomorrow when it's released. This should be pretty close though: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/b…

It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.