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passionfruit
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Comment #11230555
This could be even more dangerous than Facebook's walled garden in that it further defines Google as "The Internet." Why is this necessary if Google Plus already exists? Couldn't t…
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Comment #10849047
They could start counting hashtags against the character limit after a certain number of them.
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Comment #10708565
That is the same sort of silliness as banning software but applied to hardware instead. Furthermore, many terrorist attacks have been done using knives and machetes such as the May…
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Comment #8760815
Perhaps those of us that prefer encrypted email should begin lobbying companies to encrypt transactional emails.
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Comment #6817940
Denemo has better Lilypond output than Musescore and is not merely a specialized text editor like Frescobaldi.
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Comment #6638594
True X-Mouse Gizmo provides middle click paste in Windows as well as focus follows mouse. http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/nt/TXMouse/
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Comment #6383604
It reminds me of EnyoJS http://enyojs.com
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Comment #5680656
I use RequestPolicy[1] to prevent cross-site requests. If only NoScript is used and a user has allowed javascript on a domain, then NoScript allows cross-site requests and javascri…
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Comment #5499236
I decided to use Yandex Speller since at the time I was researching this issue it was clear that Google Spell was an undocumented and unsupported feature. http://api.yandex.ru/spel…
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Comment #5482387
Here are some other ways. 1. They could email you. 2. They could send you a SMS. 3. They could let you view your bandwidth usage by logging into their site. 4. They could provide a…
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Comment #5476197
I have been surprised to observe the number of older people who still click on the up and down arrows in order to scroll. Moving the cursor onto the scroll arrows takes precision a…
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Comment #5248185
Using an em dash would make the sentence clear. "Through the window she saw George—a policeman—and several onlookers." Or one could simply specify who George is by inserting "who i…
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Comment #5186439
This article makes some bad analogies. Showing the structure of two different molecules and acting aghast that someone would choose one over the other is like saying all digital in…
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Comment #5159071
Reading large works like these may stimulate your thinking much more than getting the same information in a shorter format.
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Comment #4953395
The article references the phrase "the cities of the coast shall tremble" as being in the New Testament [1] but the closest verse I could find is Ezekiel 26:18 [2] which is in the …
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Comment #4905778
I get 10 spam emails a day that get past Yahoo's spam filter. The common factor in all of them is that my address is not in the "To" field. Marking them all as spam for the past se…
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Comment #4696262
I almost allowed this access to my facebook account until I saw that the app name was misspelled "elpehantvsdonkey." It doesn't look trustworthy enough to use with an obvious missp…
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Comment #3899804
I see the church submission form, but will there be a way to submit the churches of entire denominations whose directory of churches is publicly available? SermonAudio.com, which a…
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Comment #3854904
This is exactly what happened to Google Buzz.
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Comment #3270855
As a person with very strong religious views I've found the matching algorithm to be great at filtering out those with incompatible views. I think matching based on ethical, politi…
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Comment #3137849
Yes, this is definitely needed. I have a book in an interlinear format that requires css floating elements for fluid display.
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Comment #3086579
The Bat!