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The Libyan government barred foreign parties from owning domain names of three letters or less.

I think that saying that car sharing will be limited to the privileged metropolitan residents is short sighted, too. Services like Zipcar don't work well in less populated areas, b…

A good many of the linked articles are full of snark and vitriol, setting a poor example for the commentariat to follow.

I don't know if I could adapt to Emacs with another input device. Part of being good at Emacs is training your muscle memory. I probably can't even describe half of the inane chord…

"This site is currently running on free quota--that means that things can and will turn off as people play with it." Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch.…

What's the threshold for an "old account"?

I don't know why this is so hard or requires such significant investment up front. How is making a decentralized Twitter service more of a challenge than, say, IRC or Jabber? I kno…

This is the brave new world of SEO in our media. Once reputable news sources are more than willing to throw all their credibility out the door so that they can be the louder wall o…

My Page Down key melted from being pressed repeatedly so many times. Fucking designers.

Security traded for convenience, back to square one.

It's pretty refreshing to see cases where a government doesn't stay the course when the facts contradict it. I wonder if it is in less of a thrall of France's IP lobby?

I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font. (and the monospaced version)

The tech press loves bloodshed, just like the regular press.

Imagine having your arms in front of your face for an 8+ hour workday. That will be terrible. Chiropractors are going to make a fortune off Win8.

Can't it be Hotmail v2? There looks to be vestiges of Hotmail/Live Mail everywhere. So, a better question is: is this just added features and a reskinning on top of Hotmail?

It's still copying strings and passing them between functions, which is still a type of "reading" if you want to play by the fast and loose definitions of Microsoft's marketing tea…

Besides the Metro thing, what's so modern/different about this versus Hotmail?

And, let me guess, you don't want to pay any money for this?

Quoted for posterity. One of the most amazingly crappy articles I've seen come out of the SEO content mills. "1. Coffee and cigarettes. 2. For nonsmokers, coffee and a donut. 3. Ch…

Meta-comment: why do tech blogs punch-up headlines with words like "just" and questionmarks?

More fundamental than that: I think the issue is poor performance management and the well-connected tenured employees that can't break free from decades-old paradigms.