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Perhaps to crop and compress it for the web?

Well, why don't we just test it for ourselves instead of wondering? Let's see here: login to a site, open a new private browsing window (Chrome), load the site, am I logged in? Nop…

Exactly. Square is trying to build up a collection of services to offer local businesses, especially restaurants, of which payments is just one. Google has been playing in the same…

Is it reproducible? You (or her) can call 611 for repair service from your phone company.

Do you honestly think that poorer people are poorer because they sit around watching Breaking Bad all day? Have you perhaps ever met someone who works hard at three jobs at minimum…

And we don't necessarily have to take every single view seriously. The vast majority of people don't want a massive polluting factory built next to their single-family home. The fa…

The Pinball story is explained in Raymond Chen's "The Old New Thing" as mooism2 recalls (well, before he edited with the results of his googling...): http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnew…

Publicly traded stocks are subject to a large number of regulations that have the intent to protect investors. The point isn't to make it impossible to lose all your money; the law…

Because of literally hundreds of years of investment scams that bilk people out of their life savings. Publicly traded companies are subject to various securities regulations that …

My gosh. There are so many buzzwords and acronyms it is impossible to tell what you actually do, much less determine why I should care.

There's an EFF fair use test case involving a YouTube takedown of a toddler bouncing around to a 29 second clip of a Prince song playing in the background: Lenz v. Universal. It wa…

Yeah the FAA isn't going to buy the use of Flytenow as an intermediary. And surely people are going to be offering flights they weren't going to be taking anyway.

Because competition in the browser market is vital to keep the web platform progressing and to prevent a single party from controlling web standards. Do you remember the dark ages …

This actually isn't a joke? I got to the point where it asks for a credit card number, seriously expecting (hoping maybe?) for a "Haha!" message, and yet... It's like someone read …

Two reasons. The first is that these people often don't look like salesmen. They come in appearing to be providing impartial advice, and all the incentives, commissions, etc... tha…

This may be the most baffling thing I've ever seen. Why? Imagine if they put this kind of effort into solving, I don't know, virtually any other problem in the universe.

I don't see why they wouldn't be willing to talk to the legal department of, say, GM and clarify the exact terms for a license. The blog post is a general statement of intent and t…

Elevators. I mean obviously there are significant structural concerns as well, but elevators are a big part of what makes building super-tall buildings uneconomic and impractical. …

You can see the What's New in iOS 8 doc for a general overview of, er, what's new: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno... More specifically, there's the iO…

CNN really screwed up this story (and issued a correction). Amazon Payments isn't remotely new; most of this stuff has been around 6+ years. The only new thing is better support fo…

In California, yes. In other states, this crap has certainly held up in court. You're also dealing with employees who, like some mentioned in the article, are unlikely to have acce…

That's how a free market for employees works though. If an employee is truly that crucial to your business, you'd better come up with a package that encourages him/her to stick aro…

I remember visiting a walk-through of this house back in the day here in SF. Amazing how so much of it has come to fruition, yet Microsoft has been responsible for so little of it.…

There may be some room to negotiate as an engineer. As a hair stylist or a summer camp counselor, the terms usually tend to be closer to the take it or leave it variety.