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Haha, you're right. I have dry skin, so I make heavy use of hand cream... which doesn't play nicely with touchscreens at all. The smudges are especially annoying on glossy screens.…

That would make sense on laptops and other small devices, but not so much if you're sitting 2-3 ft away from 2-3 large screens. Which is not uncommon for programmers and designers …

There's Textile, but its handling of blockquotes and code samples is much less convenient than Markdown. Github's wiki used to use Textile, and it sucked.

Completely agreed. The method described in the article requires commenters to use HTML tags and even know how to balance them. In addition, it is supposed to detect code blocks aut…

Your last point is really interesting. I use a desktop at home and a small laptop on the go, and everything I need is always on both computers. Files, bookmarks, browsing history, …

> some of them can be overcome: external peripherals for ergonomics, larger screens, and extra storage. Once you've attached an external monitor, external keyboard and mouse, and a…

Actually, since you normally can't use anything but characters in the 0x20-0x7E range, the 8 char password has much less entropy: 95^8 ~= 6.63E15. I love the backtick in my passwor…

Some Koreans do this: they just type up some Korean words. Since most password fields only accept ASCII symbols, the password gets entered as a nonsensical string of alphabets. For…

I'm not disputing any of that. I just get annoyed when people compare languages with frameworks. Ruby and Python have many advantages compared to PHP, but out-of-the-box XSS preven…

Rails is a framework. PHP is a language. If you use a framework with PHP, it's just as easy to avoid XSS. Likewise, if you use vanilla Ruby without any framework...

Most LiveCDs don't mount hard drives unless you specifically tell it to do so, for example, by clicking on the drive icon. Perhaps this distro disables even that capability, so you…

So, when you copy somebody else's work (e.g. a song) for personal enjoyment, it's an outrageous crime; but when you copy a student's essay for profit, it's fair use. You're right, …

Just wait until people start talking about IE 26, Firefox 34, Chrome 42, etc. Now that even the Linux kernel is jumping onto the inflated-version-numbers bandwagon, it won't be lon…

It's not Google criticizing Sony, it's Andrew Hintz posting on his Google+ page.

Looks like a ripoff of Linode's logo, topped with a bit of Minecraft texture.

$12.99? Why pay more? Namecheap has SSL certs for $9/year.

You'll probably need to win the lawsuit before the judge can order something like that.

Ah, sorry. I meant UN, not EU. The article I linked to in the great-great-grandparent says UN, not EU. Western Europe sucks. Too much MAFIAA influence there.

In the case of individual countries, it's often construed as a constitutional right. But in the case of the EU, you're right, it's a human right. Thanks for the correction.

I have a couple of very small VPS's which cost $15-20 per year. That's less than the cost of a cup of coffee per month. There are plenty of similar offers on sites like LowEndBox.c…

I don't think there's any penalty for false accusations of copyright infringement. Likewise, nobody needs to pay for falsely accusing you of anything unless you sue them for defama…

Some European countries [1] and even the UN [2] have recently begun to recognize internet access as a Constitutional right. If similar decisions were made here, one might be able t…

> DNS is a natural resource, Interesting idea, but I don't think this analogy works. Sovereign nations routinely assume complete control over natural resources located within their…

I think it depends on what you mean by "due process." If you mean "whatever the law says the government can do, and/or what the government customarily does," there may have been no…

You're right. It should say: Unix time is the number of seconds since epoch, not counting leap seconds.