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I'm somewhat unsure about the significance of this stars, it seems too much like a PR checklist.
Re:The Girls Next Door on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @09:50AM (#7559229)
i disagree because slavery in "ancient times" came in all shapes and sizes.
Re:Don't Hijack Browser Keyboard Shortcuts on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @08:42AM (#7558893)
Yeah. From a usability point of view, I think it's important to hijack some shortcuts, but only those who are not commonly used for such as the one mentioned in the article. I would also argue that this behaviour of blogger is not what users expect, hence it is not a bad behaviour. Wasn't there a pair of shortcuts commomly used for this purpose, Ctrl-K / Ctrl-J if i'm not mistaken?
Re:Black death was not spread by rat fleas, say researchers on Wednesday April 02, 2014 @01:49AM (#7513795)
The actual bad smell of infected people was believed to be unhealthy, so afaik most plague masks were built to provide a "good" smell through herbs or incent, but it seems plausible that some of them helped nonetheless.
Re:2014 F1 explained: What is brake by wire? on Monday March 31, 2014 @03:44AM (#7500191)
Rougly speaking, an electric motor acts as a generator when you turn it.
Re:Famo.us Demos on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:03PM (#7481736)
http://demo.famo.us/tweetus/ doesn't work on my Android native browser
Any Danish care to comment?
Re:Turkey has blocked Google DNS access to Twitter on Monday March 24, 2014 @06:31PM (#7462167)
That seems a weird claim to make. What is problematic about freedom of speech in Europe?
Thank you, riginal site does not even load on my Android.
Re:Hapax legomenon on Thursday March 06, 2014 @07:24AM (#7353238)
Hyphen concatenation is also allowed in German, and widely used.
Re:All RGB colors in one image on Tuesday March 04, 2014 @10:35AM (#7340795)
I sometimes like to violate the browser canvas element in my spare time:

Chromium Version: http://webspekt.de/paintgen-client

node.js Version: http://webspekt.de/paintgen-server

My Server is pretty bad, so when in doubt, don't click.

Re:Why spies never discover anything useful on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:40AM (#6834271)
[...] useful [to prevent terrorist attacks etc.], because that is the implied reason for having spys.
Re:Why spies never discover anything useful on Monday December 02, 2013 @10:40AM (#6834269)
[...] useful [to prevent terrorist attacks]
Re:Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @03:29AM (#6398072)
>Self-hosting and updating an entire web app is not very realistic these days, but exporting in a ready to deploy site is a feature I'm thinking about. It isn't implemented yet.

Ah, now I get it. That would be a nice feature.

>I don't want this to have a private mode, everything is public.

Is there a preview functionality? If not, that would be an important feature.

>You can't guarantee privacy these days

That's true, but you can still give users a little privacy if you want to. I personally wouldn't want to write on that platform without a drafts/preview folder, but that might just be me.

Re:Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:20AM (#6393375)
Excuse me, but what exactly is this supposed to be? I took about 5 minutes to figure out the UI, there are bugs with logging back in after (accidentally) logging out, and it throws what I write in some kind of global timeline thing?

EDIT Not to mention the fact that I WANT to self-host!

Re:Microsoft Throws its Weight Behind Ghost on Monday September 16, 2013 @10:06AM (#6393296)
That is good to hear because this one looks pretty great and I was downright annoyed when I found out it were not out yet.