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mvikramaditya

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    Comment #7251833

    I presume you mean this? http://xkcd.com/378/

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    Comment #7168519

    Could be that the typical Yahoo mail user is less technically savvy than the users of other email providers and more prone to making mistakes which makes it easier for the account …

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    Comment #6891531

    What the author seems to be missing is that most of what we keep secret can be taken by someone with a malicious intent and used against us. This is a major reason some things are …

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    Comment #6807536

    Thanks, its not very clear. And the mashing just gets harder as you see the red increase. You just helped some people avoid RSI :)

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    I'm not sure whether its timing based or whether you just need to mash buttons like hell? If it is turn based it makes sense, but not much I can do with 300 ms latency as I watch t…

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    Comment #6800505

    Here is an extract from MS' statement regarding this: "To be clear, the Xbox Live Policy & Enforcement team does not monitor direct peer-to-peer communications like Skype chats and…

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    Comment #6724784

    I meant the attributes that we measure progress by. Quoted straight from the article - "It leads the world in education, banking, shipping and has created a everyday existence of u…

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    The article seems to be a summary of the consequences of modern living, and the loss of "community", "fun" and "enjoyment" which goes along with it.

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    Nowhere in the article does the author blame this for the perceived issues he mentions. In fact from his tone, this seems to be a positive in the way Singapore has improved in mode…

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    Paraphrasing from the article, this tool allows the machine to have internet access while being isolated from the local network.

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    Comment #6289775

    I second this. There are plenty of free, accurate and beautiful weather apps available. I was kind of hoping there would be a page which shows what _unique_ features this app provi…

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    Comment #6272764

    This immediately reminded me of theoatmeal's cartoon on how commercial planes should be laid out :) link: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/airplane_layout

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    Comment #6090650

    I'd rather that Airline Websites use their time in improving the usability of their site by using autocomplete suggestions instead of drop-down lists of hundreds of cities, save in…

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    Comment #6075243

    Am I missing something? You only lose accounts which you are not using, correct? It is easy enough to avoid losing the account by logging into it once. If you have lost access to t…

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    Comment #5952656

    Wasn't this one of the original "Chrome Experiments"? I remember there being quite a lot of them, most of which were fun to play with.