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Note that the NewEgg's refusal is based on the original OS being missing rather than a new OS being installed according to that email. My guess is that the user formatted the HD be…

This appears to be another reactionless drive [1] that sci-fi authors and crackpots come up with every few years. There are many variants of these designs [2] and a drive based on …

Why? Android, Chrome, Firefox, etc have app stores and are still open. App stores are orthogonal to openness.

Customers not on a contract and willing to avoid AT&T, Verizon and Sprint can avoid quite a bit of fees. E.g. T-mobile has a $30 plan for 100 minutes, 5GB of 3G (and EDGE after tha…

What I find really peculiar is how the colors after composition and postprocessing are so different from the other images of Earth at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble I…

>Women's life experiences are thus characterized by a constant and unending fear of sexual assault. >When you ask men the same question---to list what they do to protect themselves…

Windows does a good job of abstracting the hardware away and preventing the OEMs from tweaking the APIs so this isn't an issue in most cases. The major exception is for the large g…

Why not? 'This' is just like 'me too' or '+1'. By itself, it's a waste of a comment, but since harlanlewis elaborated, the "This." was just a prologue to the rest of the comment.

FYI, he original link has the actual images: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/transit-mir...

>if you lived at the right point in time and weren't a slave You've just excluded the majority of Athenians[1]. If you generalize "slave" to "bottom Nth percentile of the populatio…

In some cases, it's even worse. Low end netbooks running Chrome will load the page and then the entire machine locks up as the WebGL starts rendering and takes over the weak GPU. E…

Augmented vision technology makes perfect sense for blind and vision impaired users. For example, the latest version of Google Goggles ( http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles ) perf…

All you need to do is put quotes around the phrase. Or if you want pages that must contain all the words in any order, place quotes around each word. Or just use Verbatim Search: h…

FYI, if you want to read a comic about modern soldiers going back in time to fight in Rome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana_(comics)

A gTLD has an initial price of "$185,000, with an annual fee of $25,000". Someone who wants to run a piracy website will probably opt for a cheaper domain. And anyone who can shell…

Regarding #2, there is also the possibility that if a civilization converted its light cone into computronium, we would not notice. Maybe because they used exotic matter as a subst…

There is an interesting rule in COPPA that is the cause of this bad experience: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm#teen For sites that choose to age-screen, age information …

FYI, you can still log into a Chromebook with a Anonymous/Incognito/Guest account and use it as long as you don't care about persistence. Chromebooks are designed to be orthogonal …

Brin is not the CTO of Google: "Sergey Brin co-founded Google Inc. in 1998. Today, he directs special projects. From 2001 to 2011, Sergey served as president of technology, where h…

Eric Schmidt is no longer a programmer, but he was one of the authors of lex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)

FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky eno…

There is a difference between being a plaintiff in a patent case and using patents offensively. In the Skyline case, it looks like Skyline sued Google over Google Earth: http://goo…

If you have Chrome, open the link in Incognito mode and it will let you read the entire article.

Compare this with two python solutions. The first was when I was learning python and is similar to how I would solve it in C. The second is a copy of that haskell solution: tri = […