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Re:Gmail was down on Friday January 24, 2014 @02:14PM (#7116952)
If it's actually a widespread outage, is this a configuration problem for some anti-snooping changes that Google is making?

I don't think they've ever had a worldwide outage like this.

Re:Path texts my entire phonebook at 6 AM on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @12:40PM (#5633253)
Classmates.com was sued in 2008 for sending emails claiming former classmates were searching for you. Similar, but Classmates.com was actually requiring a paid subscription before telling you there wasn't actually anyone on the other end.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/03/classmatescom-set...

Re:Crockford Keyboard on Thursday February 28, 2013 @04:55PM (#5301332)
The "Done" button is a toggle? Is that a side effect of this being a proof of concept, or was there some extra functionality in mind?

Edit: Answering my own question, since it looks like this was designed for touch/pen based input, it would probably hide the keyboard: http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/keyboard.html

Re:Automating xkcd Diagrams: Transforming Serious to Funny on Friday October 05, 2012 @05:37PM (#4618801)
This also links to an interesting article describing how to create an xkcd self referential chart.

http://blog.wolfram.com/2010/09/07/self-description/

Re:An Update from Elon Musk on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @10:41PM (#4610651)
Exciting quote emphasized in post: "we expect Tesla to become cash flow positive at the end of next month."
Re:GitHub Secrets on Friday October 21, 2011 @05:56PM (#3141898)
So glad to see ignoring whitespace supported, I found myself needing this a lot.
Re:Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @02:38PM (#1081404)
Honestly, I'm just disappointed that something bridging the gap between iPhones and laptops doesn't have Flash or app backgrounding.