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soundgecko

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    Comment #5978681

    Well, once you get past the tech savvy crowd which is like 1% of the browsing population, even if Firefox truly beats Chrome by a big margin, I don't think this is going to change …

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    Comment #5973811

    Any Microsoft product? They shouldn't use any Google product by the same token. Report: Android malware up 614% as smartphone scams go industrial http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/…

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    Comment #5971890

    There's the other problem of decreasing contrast and lack of borders separating the last ad and first organic search result. http://ppcblog.com/fbf0fa-now-you-see-it http://blument…

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    Comment #5971665

    Would be interesting to see how IE11 fares since it's close to release. Also sad to see one less engine because of Operas' Presto being retired because of things like this. https:/…

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    Comment #5970977

    Meanwhile millions of businesses are able to get it to work quite well. Ever use StackOverflow? NewEgg? Their server and tools revenue continues to increase by double digits. You t…

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    Comment #5970924

    IIRC, you get to keep the existing licenses and only need to pay for new ones.

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    Comment #5962684

    This could've easily gone wrong. What if they had a gun in their car? A knife? A gram of pot? What if there was a minor injury to the agents? All for a 20 year old drinking beer?

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    Comment #5962661

    I thought it was yet another of those articles with an inflammatory but ultimately misleading headline designed to get on Buzzfeed and Reddit. Boy, was I wrong. The story was actua…

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    Comment #5962618

    What's to stop individuals or companies from using the same tech to collect data? After all, what you do in public is public, and private detectives are allowed to follow and film …

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    Comment #5947518

    I doubt even the EU will act against the only meager competition to Google's absolute dominance. Not to mention that devices with Google as default are the majority these days beca…

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    Comment #5941315

    I sincerely wish there were better ways of expressing ideas than memegenerated images that seems to be infecting almost every forum I read. Take a look at http://reddit.com/r/gamin…

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    Comment #5939942

    Serious question, who would you blame for that? The government for the high tax rate? Or the companies for not including VAT into the advertized price?

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    Comment #5939692

    How is the Kinect any worse than every phone, tablet, laptop that have cameras and/or mics, which people carry with them 24/7, even to showers? For example, I would be much more em…

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    Comment #5925989

    Slashdot's moderation system is much better in this regard. The users starting score for new posts first goes to 0 and then -1 so that the comment will be collapsed by default redu…

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    Comment #5923873

    Its sad that it took so long spite of being all over HN, Reddit, /. Etc. Shows that the tech community is not as big as we think and/or is apathetic to even filling a form, forget …

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    Comment #5916946

    I wish there was still a curated list of categorized websites.