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People who design these games think about security. Sometimes (rarely) exploits get unnoticed and go into production. I'm confused about why we are supposed to believe that there i…

Well, I'm sure it's something that could be worked out, but there will likely be naming issues between French and Non-French nuclear engineers working together. It seems relevant t…

I'm not sure if this got modded down because people think I'm being facetious, but I'm seriously wondering what happened with that. For people who don't know, every country in the …

80% of the cost of nuclear energy is building the reactor. With around $500B worth of existing reactor infrastructure worldwide, which runs on Uranium, don't expect that to go away…

Are they still using Francs for their units of reactivity, or did that get changed to Euros as well?

Wow, this guy guarantees that if it isn't tested, it doesn't work. Important projects that people depend on like the linux kernel must have really good test coverage.

First of all, here is Downton Abbey Season 2 on Amazon [ http://www.amazon.com/Downton-Abbey-A-House-History/dp/B006M... ] I'd like to know the actual stream bitrate he experienced…

Too bad http://tacocopter.com/ isn't out of closed beta yet.

This reminds me of when Fred Wilson pirated the Knicks game because nobody let him pay for it: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/01/screwcable.html

This illustrates that free parking is a major subsidy to auto owners. I've lived in some bohemian situations in the past, and largly, the most difficult part is dealing with people…

This reminds me of my friend's plan to use the American Express "black" card with no credit limit to buy American Express.

“Some people will feel sad about it and nostalgic about it. But we have a better tool now. The Web site is continuously updated, it’s much more expansive and it has multimedia.” Th…

Exactly his point here. my.yahoo.com was innovative for its time, and patents are supposed to last 20 years, right? So according to the legal system in place, the public should use…

This is why I stick with Rails; for the mindshare. There are many reasons to be critical of Rails, but the bottom line is that other people generously contribute work like this on …

Apple doesn't want one of these presidential hopefuls to start campaigning on the platform that the second largest US company needs to start creating jobs in the US.

In 2003, NASA sent some people to check out supposed breatharians... just in case.

My browser does 10,000 operations / second with innerHTML, and 15,000 operations / second with DOM. In every ajax application I've ever made, this is negligible, compared to latenc…

I noticed hn was slow yesterday, so I ran "ab -n 20 -c3 http://news.ycombinator.com/" to try to see how slow it was, and my company's ip has been banned for more than a day now. So…

Doesn't every website that gets used by the unwashed masses eventually have to deal with this problem? How does facebook or youtube deal with it? How did AOL deal with it? Is the i…

The pilot episode on GSM security was my favorite one.

I fully agree with this. CSS set the web back years with it's inability to handle simple layout. The W3C organization is run by representatives of major corporations, and the stand…