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> "Both agents declined to comment for this article, but according to two people briefed on the investigation..." What are the odds the "two people" are "both agents"? That's like …

> As ever, responses to this news will largely fall into two categorizes: those who believe that the U.S. — and other governments — should do everything within its power to find an…

> The aggregate pain and aggregate loss of using cash for transactions in a credit-card dominated world is much larger I have not found this to be the case. > Sign up for Mint I do…

I'm not a particular fan of pie charts or donut charts, but the visualization used in this tool is actually helpful at understanding and comparing nested amounts. The reason I don'…

Yeah there are laws, but you have to catch it, and you have to report it and sometimes you don't realize you've been defrauded until months later. Hackers in my experience don't em…

> Unless they're going back to mechanical ones. I've been going back to cash instead of using credit cards because I've been exposed twice now via Target and Home Depot. I want to …

NextStep was built with enterprise in mind but became wholly consumer in its next life as OS X and then iOS. The massive consumer success of the iPhone led to employers giving in t…

What's the benefit of using fastmail if you just forward to gmail?

That's great to hear. Regarding the Android app having just checked it out, my first request, if you're taking them, is multiple account support. I can only log into one fastmail.c…

I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it's just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail,…

Well it's patched now, but it didn't affect you unless you were running a "Windows Server" although all recent operating systems were affected. If your Windows machine is behind yo…

ssh into a box that is set up to use tor, install squid, set up firefox to use your squid/tor box as a proxy. Your home is no longer broadcasting that you're using tor. Your box co…

Of course it's about the money. Where does the engineer working on the open source software get money from to work on the project?

How do you charge for something that can be freely redistributed? How can I charge you $50 for software that you can then take and give to everyone for free because of the open sou…

>It's a nice concept but I'll start using it as soon as someone creates a FOSS clone. I like FOSS, and am grateful for the work open source engineers put into software, and I have …

> Time has proven again and again that humans are really bad at memory management Well until AI write garbage collectors I'm not sure I see how your comment doesn't also apply to t…

I also encourage people to use evil-leader with evil mode and check out other evil plugins, like the * to select all instances of the word under a cursor. Evil is very good, in som…

I don't know if they're shutting down, they have to feel the heat somewhat from Microsoft's free IE testing service[1] though. modern.ie still has references to browserstack, but I…

Some great pictures of the place before its demolition can be found on this article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insig... What an interesting place it us…

> About two weeks ago I was unable to switch to Street View in the android app. It simply wasn't accessible through dropping the pin, as it was in the past. The first thing you sho…