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A. Oh, I wish I had seen and checked the box, that initial tweet didn't get sent out. B. Oh, I wish I had seen and unchecked the box, I was surprised that a tweet got sent out. Whi…

:w! is the command you execute to confirm that you don't have write privileges on the file you're editing.

If UPS existed 110 years ago: "After years of horse drawn cartage, we're going petroleum first, and we're very excited about it." Of course digital first should be the first inclin…

I think the point to be gleaned from this article is not "start a business and then retire on the proceeds from its sale." As the article states, people aren't buying businesses at…

Does Zuckerberg disagree that the effect would be something like this?

"I suppose the next step for our "well-intentioned" law makers would be to have all routers subscribe to a global IP blacklist, which will be easier when IPV6 becomes the norm and …

The government already tries to hard to keep information from citizens. Why should we help them?

My understanding is that everything is copyright automatically, unless given to the public domain. Your post here, for example, is copyright by you.

And they can illuminate the cover titles in calligraphy with little illustrations of cherubs and such. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript#Gallery

Who decides what's porn?

I was pretty pissed to realize that my Epic, that cost as much as a small PC, would not likely enjoy updates for very long, certainly not the life of the phone. Coincidentally, bec…

"Not to mention ===, etc, etc." In that context, I read "etc, etc" as a variant of the "etc" operator.

Excellent advice, often ignored. To your comment, I would add that you shouldn't limit your problem to something small or "doable." List and describe as grandiose a problem as inte…

They've got people skills.

Already too late, they're falling all over themselves to proclaim their ignorance and vote this into tragic existence.

Let's hope so, it seems only something that ridiculous is going to get anyone's attention. I suppose the Elves leaving .com might do it too.

Anonymous lists the names of Portman's children in the attack. I don't have much problem with the "attack," which mainly lists Portman's public information. But his children are in…

These laws are written for entities that are "too big to fight." Not us.

To go in the Description field of your bookmark: (quote) If you are currently using the Oracle Java packages from the partner archive, you have two options: 1- Install the OpenJDK …

I have flashblock turned on. vtunnel is full of flash, and does some sort of not-a-popup popup at the beginning, with nothing but flash in it. They could be angels for all I know, …

Never heard of it, just tried it. I can see this ending up being my favorite browser, if I can peel off the time to figure out bookmarks. If I understand, the answer is "manage the…

I would like the ability to access and manipulate all of "my" browser data in a pipelined command line environment similar to a shell. I want to be able to easily get at all my boo…

If the jackal is breaking your windows you'll probably do something direct and immediate to defend yourself. If it's slinking just beyond the tree line you might decide to put anot…

Probably the trailer, as we think of it in the movies, is too expensive. Trailers are shown to and amortized across a national audience, and I assume are placed in front of movies …

"What happens if you cannot find a bank that gives you a loan without insisting that you give them access to your accounts?" Then you either go to another bank, or maybe you don't …