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That is a great idea and I do not find it too spammy. Twitter could implement something like that themselves as advertisement (simple context aware text ads).

Could someone be so kind to explain why this is bad for Java instead being bad for patents? I guess we all agree that software patents are bad. This issue seems to be just about them. Why is Java dragged into this? (Genuine curiosity.)

If it was not so darn expensive, I would be psyched. But this way I will wait for the OpenPandora for my mobile mini-PC needs (for a telephone I love my Nokia 6310 and will use it until the day it ceases functioning).

Now if only they'd make it truly free, provide an easy download option (also the possibility to get the whole archive) and use the crowd to improve the quality of the text.

I wonder if re-hosting is allowed, then someone could start a plain archive where people can upload the files.

Great!

Doubleplus grest because it fully works without the need for Javascript and even Cookies, thanks.

I searched for a Pizza Salami, selected about 10 of the top ingredients and got about 6000 results. I then added some of the suggested ingredients and got more results (until I added an obscure one). Shouldn't more ingredients means a smaller set of recipes? Maybe you are using less strict rules (OR instead of AND) for later result pages, otherwise I cannot imagine why this happened. Well, minor observation really. ;-)

It is rather hidden but here are the formatting options: http://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

I have to disagree, the font looks terrible for me (Windows XP, Opera). Maybe he forgot to use a good fallback font?

Enlighten me: How is a user with sudo rights different from a root user?

It is completely irrelevant how many users use it. If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority.

edit: Am I missing about the number of users deciding about the quality of something? Or why on earth am I getting downmodded? I don't have a problem with that, but I feel stupid and I rather not.

You are allowed to watch it with your friends though, of course that might depend on the country you live in. In Germany you are even allowed to give copies to close friends and family members (but you are not allowed to break copy protection).

And here is Jason Scott's (BBS Documentary, textfiles.com, Get Lamp, etc) mail exchange with Gizmodo after they asked him to contribute: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2079

Here is the "article" he could have been part of http://gizmodo.com/5316206/the-desperate-times-before-intern...

It was something like no alt text being rendered when images are not displayed or found, I don't fully remember and could not find it in 5 minutes Bugzilla search hell. I did stumble on the still-open bug some days ago though, I think it was 8 years old now.

I wish the Firefox developers would focus on bug fixing for the next big release. There are so many bugs that are not fixed for many years. For example alt-text on images not correctly shown or disable-output-encoding on XML/XSLT being ignored. Instead that add more and more features. The awesome bar already made me switch to Opera, I miss some extensions though so I do keep an eye if Firefox gets "better" for me.

If you are thinking of local directory traversal (src="jar:http://kaioa.com/b/0907/test.jar!../../somefile) then I think you are underestimating browser coders. Introducing that security issue would require a dedicated effort.

Who is Chris Anderson, what is this audiobook about and why should I check it out?

Since this is open-source, is there a fork for PC/Linux yet? I am not the slightest bit interested in the iphone, but having this on a USB stick would be handy.

I love VirtualBox so much. Thanks to Innotek for the free and open-source distribution. I do use the closed source version though.

If only they would support branching snapshopts. For example a main VM and then you could have one work tree and one webbrowsing tree. This would make using it for daily work even more appealing. Well, some day, I am sure.

For several months I have a 500MB tmpfs ramdisk (which I will probably turn into a ramfs one after reading that article).

I put my browser cache, several logging files and other volatile things there. Whenever I download something just to dispose it later, it goes in there. If I try something stupid with a lot files or some big ones, it goes in there.

It feels much nicer than to fragment the harddisk for such things; maybe it is just a placebo but it makes me happy. And of course access and usage of those files is blazing fast.

PS: Having Opera's temporary download directory automatically wiped away alone is worth it... :)

I moved a domain to them and I really really like them.

I found the page rather hard to read and it took a "long" time until I understood what it is all about. Putting the text in 2 columns might help. Not sure about the serif font too.

Nice idea. I like it. The revizr name does not appeal to me though, it sounds a bit too fresh and young. My first association was a razor and green/metallic colour, heh.

The logo has some weird spaces ("kerning"?).

Try search.yahoo.com I find it quite good. In some nichees Yahoo is far better than Google (won't mention them because I am a tinfoil hat privacy freak, sorry). Also it seems to index XML (eg when used with XSLT) much more likely than Google.

Contrary to what the headline might suggest, this is just a list of links to interesting articles.

How about some truly free music? Mixsets are a grey area.

Give http://www.professorkliq.com/ a try (if you don't like IDM just like me, don't worry about the "kliq"). http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Professor_Kliq

Apart from the "squat not" theme this seems like a generic domain trade site. What would be the benefit to other domain trade services?

The escrow link on http://squatnot.com/about/ is buggy.

The design wastes vertical screen. The listing starts in the middle of the screen and I only see 3 sites on 1024x768.

Firefox still is awefully slow on Linux. I switched to Opera rather recently (~6 months?) because of this. Thanks to Opera's amazing session saver and the quick end/restart cycle I find it much less a pain in the backside than Firefox if it gets hoggy (not that it ever did that for me, sometimes it slows down for some reason though).

Opera has some content blocker built in. Rightclick on a website and select "Block Content". It supports wildcards. I guess most people who use content blocking have Adsense blocked. You can disable it per-site too (rightclick -> site preferences).

I too suspect a high number of Opera users to be very technical experienced.

Also I think Opera users are more prone to be quite cautious about being tracked online. I know several guys who stopped using Firefox and went to Opera since Firefox so prominently bundles Google with it.

Last but not least, choosing to use Opera is an active decision. IE/Safari/Firefox (Ubuntu etc.) are default browsers. Opera is not. So there is a high chance that the user uses it for a specific reason. Not something "John Doe" would do for "his internet".

I think this is my first comment here, so please excuse me if it is too plain but

This seems like a typical flamebait. Nothing of value, nothing to think about, nothing but childish hate (or maybe simply attention/backlink whoring).