Google Reader re-launched:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/04/01/google-reader-rises-...
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#492MSDOS is the new mobile OS from Microsoft Announcement: http://lumiaconversations.microsoft.com/2015/04/01/microsoft... Product page: http://www.microsoft.com/en/mobile/ms-dos/ Edit: Even an app http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/ms-dos-mobile/85... Wow, the app is really well done. SPOILERS: Can cd into a programs folder, and launch programs like sms.exe, where I get a blue DOS-style window asking for input…
SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T2 Ah, the memories...
Oh man, my fondest early memories with computers was modifying the autoexec.bat and config.sys files so I could play DOS games. I can only describe the feeling of finally figuring it out and getting a certain game to work as pure joy.
Conversely, the feeling when I changed something incorrectly (without backups of the original file, of course) and the system error'd out during boot - sheer panic.
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#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
This battle was lost the second people started using .net and .org for things that wheren't related network technologies and non-profit orgranizations respectively. The nail was driven into the coffin when people started using country tld's for sites that had nothing to do with that country. If anything this might be step back in the right direction. Whereas I cannot tell anything about the nature or origin of a site…
Or .Sony, except there is no guarantee Sony corp actually registered that TLD.
Sony does own the .sony gTLD: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/request-2014081-...
More generally, as part of ICANN's gTLD approval process, if the gTLD being applied for is a trademark, then it can't go to anyone else besides the trademark holder. So there's actually a lot more assurances that you are dealing with who you expect to be dealing with with gTLDs versus random domain names on .com.
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#494Google acquires XDA : http://www.xda-developers.com/google-to-acquire-xda-dev-rewa...
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#495The CSS working group has published a draft of proposed extensions to the CSS specification, which include dedicated units for denoting lengths on astronomical scales (lightseconds, attoparsecs, etc.) as well as extending the CSS gradient syntax to grant first-class support to the generation of double rainbows. http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-egg/
This is gold
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#496Reddit releasing a crowd game at /r/thebutton
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#497The C languages merge
http://isocpp.org/blog/2015/04/the-c-languages-merge
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#499April fools I wanted the most: - NSA announcing they were dropping all illegal activities, - Water allowed on board of planes, - ISIS converting to Christianity, - Apple patenting the patent, - Snapchat releasing a payment system Note that April Fools is on December 28th in Spannish culture. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day#Comparable...
https://support.snapchat.com/ca/snapcash
This is real though!
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#500Metasploit Framework rolls out new banners: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/5047
My Little Pwny: Exploits are Magic!
Hilarious!