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Credit card issuers have access to this information for years, right? I suppose there will be some relevant legislation somewhere. Google is bound to be doing this on a very large …

The government of greece does not issue bonds at this time. This is probably mostly due to speculation. It's unlikely that the whole of europe went through so much pain just to let…

Thanks to the web, linux doesn't have to have a good desktop UI. I 've always used ubuntu, because it's the one you can easily install on a new laptop, but my desktop has always be…

You can still use the iframe version of the facebook like button, but they've removed the relevant documentation. Still i think all these buttons are malicious and a privacy nightm…

Blame "The Social Network" for portraying developers as so evil, sleazy arrogant pricks that everyone would want to be one.

i expected this thread would be dead soon

Bury it all you want, i have sympathy for the evicted, not this sleazy redditor. Posts like these are the reason i removed 'reddit.com' from my reddits.

Yours is even less so. Like the parent, i found the story uninteresting. If anyone with a sad job got to the frontpage, goodbye IT news. In the end, if the guy thinks his job is sa…

Since i m not going to read it, can somebody please post a tl;dr here: http://tldrplz.com ?

TBH, i would like to see all the like/+1/tweet/digg buttons gone, they are a big privacy hazard. This functionality should be included in the browser or available from extensions.

Because techcrunch is popular. Other than that, the guy is very temperamental as the crunchpad story shows.

The article did not hide any of these facts though, so it's not "utter nonsense". The title of the original article is "A Higgs Setback: Did Stephen Hawking Just Win the Most Outra…

The article isn't just about spotify, but anyway, bandwidth usage is a concern now, but certainly as bandwidth goes up there will be more and more services taking advantage of P2P …

Actually the difference is not that big. It's all in our brain anyway, and most virtual experiences evoke similar brain responses as real ones (theater, TV, cinema, mirror neurons …

There is still no option to automatically cross-post to your facebook. Wait until the G+ platform launches.

Then don't

The processor would be no different to program than what we know, they haven't invented a new computational paradigm, it's still turing machines. Just to illustrate your point abou…

This is no more cognitive than any artificial neural network we have until now. The only innovation is lower power consumption. So, it's just a power-friendly artificial neural net…

I thought Google+ was more like twitter. It seems Google+ envies facebook's "intimate friend groups" that cause people to upload personal photos and events. Alas they don't realize…

I m just going to delete this because i was under the impression it was hipster.com. Thanks, and sorry